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DGR's letter to WMR
.
This collection contains 5 texts and images, including:
This interesting sonnet should be compared with the very different sentiments expressed by Byron in
his various famous verse reflections on Waterloo (see especially the Waterloo stanzas in
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos III).
The religious ideas that shape DGR's secular view of the world produces his characteristically
indifferent response. The tone is congruent with his cool, even cynical, attitude to contemporary political affairs.
(Like Byron, however, he was anything but cool and indifferent to disfunctional social
circumstances.)
Textual History: Composition
DGR wrote the poem late in October 1849.
Printing History
First printed in 1895 by WMR (see
Family
Letters, II. 79
) and collected thereafter.
This collection contains 5 texts and images, including:
Manuscript text from DGR's letter to WMR
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This interesting sonnet should be compared with the very different sentiments expressed by Byron in his various famous verse reflections on Waterloo (see especially the Waterloo stanzas in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos III). The religious ideas that shape DGR's secular view of the world produces his characteristically indifferent response. The tone is congruent with his cool, even cynical, attitude to contemporary political affairs. (Like Byron, however, he was anything but cool and indifferent to disfunctional social circumstances.)
Textual History: Composition
DGR wrote the poem late in October 1849.
Printing History
First printed in 1895 by WMR (see Family Letters, II. 79 ) and collected thereafter.